Korean traditional chopsticks spoon brand

Chopsticks culture in China, Japan and Korea

Koreans must use chopsticks and spoons at the same time when eating. The chopsticks and spoons they use are all stainless steel, which is very heavy for the first time users. Besides, they should constantly exchange chopsticks and spoons when eating, and you will feel tired after eating. I felt this way when I first came to Korea. Later, when I visited the National Duke of Zhou Museum and saw the iron chopsticks and spoons in the Baekje era, I realized that using chopsticks and spoons at the same time was not an invention of Koreans today. Koreans use stainless steel chopsticks, probably because the vegetables and meat they eat are made into large pieces, while chopsticks made of ordinary materials are not good, which is also called near. Korean rice bowls are generally stainless steel and round, with a round cover on them. The bowl can't be picked up, so it can only be eaten on the table. Soup bowls are generally made of stainless steel with a diameter of about 20 cm. Koreans must first pour rice into the soup, and then scoop up the soup and rice with a spoon to eat.

Japanese people are not like this. They only eat "Japanese food" with chopsticks instead of spoons. They usually use a bowl with a big mouth and a small bottom like morning glory, because it has a bottom and can be held up when eating. Japanese people almost always consider the size of people's mouth when eating food. In addition, they often eat fish, so chopsticks are wooden round-headed chopsticks, which are very light to hold food and flexible to remove fishbones. I have lived in Japan for several years and have never seen Japanese people use stainless steel chopsticks. When Japanese people drink soup, they first mix the soup with wooden chopsticks before drinking it, and then pick up the dishes in the soup with chopsticks to eat. But the Japanese will never pour rice into the soup, which will be despised.

Why don't Japanese people drink soup with spoons like Koreans? I heard an old Japanese man say that the spoon was spread from China to the Korean peninsula, which is separated from Japan by a sea, so the spoon didn't spread to Japan.

We in China also eat with chopsticks. Once at dinner, several Korean female classmates stared at me for a long time, looking into their eyes to say something, but they didn't say anything, just staring at my right hand. It suddenly dawned on me that I am in Korea. These Korean students have never been to China and Japan, and they don't know the eating habits of China and Japan. They just look at things according to the habits of Koreans. People often think that their national culture is the best in the world. China people are like this, and so are foreigners.